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September 8, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Let’s just say that what we have here at this blog is a little game played by 6.552610522259909e-7 % of the people in the world today!*
Pretty damn impressive, no? ( psst! hey, Exchange Students from the autonomous region of Madrid!…the answer he is looking for is…si!! ) Now I know some people might say, ‘you know, it is still a pretty small percentage there, Doctrinaires!’ To these people we say: ‘be scottian, insist on remaining rogerian or stay whatever-the-hell it is you are, clark‘!

Today’s Post is not about stats. At least not directly. Today’s Post is about one of our own, taking steps, doing things, pushing boundaries and wearing a hat (on her damn head) right into the heart of this here nation’s Capitol, here. DownSpring Joanne has taken the Wakefield Doctrine to the District of frickin Columbia! Let’s hear it for Joanne!! jeez goddamn! excellent work, yo. Look on that photo!!

Seriously, we do want to thank the Mistress of Questionnaires for bravely taking the Doctrine to a place that can totally use the benefits of understanding the nature of clarks, scotts and rogers. Not for nuthin, but I choose to believe that as Joanne walked around the Capital of the US of A, surely she would have passed by a famous, powerful politician (or even better, a Lobbyist). And as they passed, that other person, deep in thought about writing laws and and passing bills and such, would have their thought process interrupted,

(…now let’s see….” Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government… yeah and freedom of Doctrines too…I think that would only be right…”)

…pardon me Ms, the Congressperson has important business in the rotunda!

You know, it is possible. And the simple undeniable fact is that a whole bunch of people…ok a small number of people…well, the people that Joanne walked past when she had the hat (on her damn head) saw the words: theWakefield Doctrine clarkscottroger …alright, those who walked close enough to read it! But the simple reality is that the awareness of the Wakefield Doctrine is moving forward. Susan B Anthony eat your heart out!

It has been a totally satisfying week to begin the school year with! Ms. AKH (our current Speaker for the scotts), total Tasmanian when it comes to finding ways to increase the Readership of the Wakefield Doctrine, has been successful already! New Reader, ‘CY’ has taken the step of Commentationing. Welcome CY….’cellent work ‘KH ** We look forward to your Reading (lol) (… Mees Hanie? ¿Qué diablos significa eso? de mirar hacia adelante a la lectura … mi Inglés sigue siendo no tan bueno!…)

Still a lot of work to do and time is not slowing down. So write in your suggestions (for expanding the reach and presence of the Doctrine) we will print any and all suggestions (except those from glenn…our diminutive glenn is still in self-imposed timeout…we know he can self-actualize his own damn self…just needs a little time and a lot of support…so let’s all gather around glenn and have a group relate-to-each-other-in-a-circle-but-no-touchee…’come on glenn…evolve, binyon, evolve!).

Seeing as we are back in the school year, we should end the Post with a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day ( …aiyee!! Mees Hanie! qué? una prueba? No estoy listo!… )

The topic today is Progress, so I gathered some famous quotes about progress and they are from a clark, a scott and a roger. Seeing as how it is the start of the year and we have new Readers here, we will make this an open book quiz. ( CY? if you can to contribute to the discussion and manage to do so without totally embarrassing all of us, there could be a hat (for your damn head) in this for you!) (yes, you may consult with AKH…) So, here they are in no-you-can’t-get-this-wrong-I-frickin-already-told-you-the-order-of-the-types:

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) {way-dead clark}

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. (H. Ross Perot) {Still alive scott }

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize… the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. (Claude Levi-Strauss) {yes, a dead roger}

Mr. B get your overall-made-from-a-tuxedo-wearin-ass on over here…we need some music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

Well, it is good to see that the Summer vacation has done nothing to temper your clearly odd sense of the appropriate… but seriously let’s get something a bit more…edifying…we do have exchange students!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37x7lNP4DY

* 45 Readers, current world population 6,867,491,948 you do the math…roger
** the improper shortening of names and words is a clarklike approximation of the characteristically scottian use of the diminutive of people’s names.

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You have more to say, Ms AKH? or do you have Three (3) more things to say

August 30, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Alright people…. listen up. We here at the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) have been working our asses off to get you involved. It really gives an interesting view point that will help you understand everyone around you. Don’t you want to know why the hell your husband, wife, kids, friends, bosses… are acting the way they are? Well then you have to know “who” they are. Maybe you won’t get so pissed at them next time when they say or do something that you don’t like or agree with. So get with the program and check it out. You’ll be surprised by what you find. Hell, you’ll have your own frickin’ eureka moment.

“…you’re damn right I said that!!”

AKH-ette

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If I were King of the Forest, Not queen, not duke, not prince

August 24, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) What we have heah is a fun, pro-ductive an u-neek way ta look at thems what are already in ah lives. Ya know that we mean ever-one thats aroun you…work folks and friens and even kin! They all actin this ways, that a ways and such, ya amost never know what they might be up to. Well this here Doctrine here, it’ll let ya see through ’em faster n a scott at the Evelyn Woods Readin Comprehenshun Course.

Thank you for visiting. The Wakefield Doctrine is more serious and useful than the Post Title and opening paragraph may imply, but sometimes the process of writing these Posts requires a side trip or two. What makes today’s Post “interesting” is not the strained effort at a regional dialect, but rather the quote from the Wizard of Oz.
It started yesterday morning, when the Bert Lahr line , “now if I were the king of the forest, not prince, not duke, not earrll…” from the movie popped into my head. For a variety of reasons I did not write a Post yesterday, but I thought, “that’s alright I’ll save that until Tuesday’s Post”, figuring if it stayed in my head that long, I would use it as sort of a platform to launch the Post (from). Come this morning, looking up the line and it turns out to be: “…not Queen, not duke not prince…” Damn, mis-remembered it! Then, to add insult to injury, I get this pidgin dialect in my head as I try to do a standard, ‘Welcome to the Doctrine…” opening!

Well, I (still) welcome (you) to the Wakefield Doctrine! Regular Readers will notice a number of changes going on in the format of the blog and other signs of activity. It’s all part of the 90 Day Challenge, which is the Readership Drive that started a week or two ago. Some of the more noticeable changes are the result of suggestions of ‘Our Consultant’, Miz ‘Becca (Rebecca Giles over at Web Savvy Marketing). Brought in to help us tune up this thing from a search engine point of view, she is hard at work trying to help our Doctrine become the biggest visitor-count website, this side of the Philippines. Even though I am still jonesing for my beloved ellipsiseses… the early consensus is, “yeah, you go Consultant”! All the DownSprings have been hard at work as well. Story-lines for the coming months (that would be Progenitor roger and DS#1) and surveys/questionnaires hopefully from Joanne and of course, Ms. AKH has been especially busy on researching ways for us to ‘get legit’. Every bit the scottian female, AKH has taken the 90 Day Challenge very much to heart. Say what you will about scotts, but when they decide that something needs to be done, they all over that thing. Somehow since Sunday, she has found herself a seo guy (hey Doug, welcome to the Doctrine,“read it and sleep”…), started something in Wikipedia and has two or three other lines of inquiry going…not bad, not bad at all!
We’re still waiting for glenn to get back from “Inappropriate Comment Rehab Camp” (motto: ‘fuck everyone!’) and we will see if we can’t survive until Thanksgiving.

Does that give us a Lesson of the Day? nah, not yet. I could get all Marxist (or Marist, for that matter) and talk about how, when you look at what each of the DownSprings and Progenitors have chosen as a way to save this thing of ours, they are reflecting the characteristics of their type. The clarks (DS#1) is utilising and channeling the ability of others (in this case trying to motivate Progenitor roger), the standalone rogers (Joanne) she would be finding hope in the form of a mechanism that is quantifiable and measurable, i.e. a survey/questionaire that will tell the Visitor Reader which of the three they most likely are and the scotts who are all about action.

I could, go on at length about these comparisons and inferences and it might be a good idea, seo-wise. (You know, where I stick in words like personality type and relationships and clarksscottsroger so the google can find us and stick us at the top of the search results along with “Lindsay, We Hardly Knew Ye”, and “Secrets of the Housewifes of Delaware (“I told my Lover, Incorporate this!”) but I won’t. With so many new Readers coming in, lets just get all ABC with the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine is built upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers.

Born with the potential to view the world in one of these three ways, all people possess the characteristics of all (three) but soon (by age 7 or so) ‘become one of the three. Put another way: we also possess the potential to see the world as aclark or a scott or a roger. It is only the predominance of qualities from one (over the other two) that makes us what we are. No one is only clarklike or scottian or rogerian.

The value of the Wakefield Doctrine is that once you can see the world ‘through the eyes’ of another, behavior becomes understandable. If a scott sees the world as a predator (would) then all action is predicated on interacting with the world as a predator. This is distinctly different from a roger, who seeing the world as a social being, predicates action and reaction on the basis of a world in which the intereactions of the herd is the dominant theme.

…hey Just found the Lesson of the Day!! Which of the three (Scarecrow, Tin Man Cowardly Lion) are which ( clark, scott or roger)? I was just downloading the clip of the Cowardly Lion and it seems that the movie would be a productive context to illustrate the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Provided you are old enough to be ready to collect frickin Social Security.

Maybe not to the level of a “Win a hat (for your damn head) Contest”, but go ahead, send in your choice of which was who (and don’t forget the corroborating evidence, yo)

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you know, I really think the couch would look so much better over there, no just a little to your right ellipsis goes here

August 22, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the (hey! where did the clever, made-me-think-of-Charles-Dickens, little subtitles go?) Wakefield Doctrine, aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

Please, everyone* remain calm, we are in the midst of a slight remodel effort, everything is still where it has always been, sort of. You might have noticed that the Post Title is no longer the Wakefield Doctrine (…>obscure, but clever reference goes here…<) and there is a “Tag Cloud” to the right of the Post and there is even a little Twitter thing down lower in the right sidebar. All part of the Final 90 effort. (Readers should go back to sometime around August 4 or 6 and read the Post where we decided that if there is not a significant increase in the Readership around here, we be pullin the plug.)

So, seeing as we don’t want to see that happen, we brought in an Expert. Yes, we have a Consultant. (How cool, mainstream, “hey folks we need to get some professional help here”, “does anyone know of anyone who can help us”, effort is this? Isn’t this the kind of thing that ends up bringing in people who make suggestions that result in a layer of middle-management types?…hey, wait a minute!…let me check the Doctrine…hmmm…Middle Easternn…Midilothian (??)…Mental Disease…Middle Age….Middle Management! (gotcha!)…Damn, is that a photo of James Spader? goddamn it, look at the citation: “rogers are most often found as Middle Managers in any organisation. With their natural propensity for placing procedures and processes before production and profit, the rogerian Middle Manager is the foundation of any top-heavy, change resistant organization…” Holy shit! quick, get rid of that water cooler…hurry up!, what? no, I did not order a pallet of color-coordinated office supplies!! (no, I do not want a ream of personalized Post-its!!) wtf ! where did that “When Eagles Soar!!” poster come from?! oh man, I think they’ve have gotten in already! Jesus Christ, there is a Sign Up sheet for the Wakefield Doctrine pic-a-nic, on the…hey! we don’t have a Bulletin Board! People, we have a significant rogerian infiltration problem. Only one thing to do…we need a scott! stat!!

Oh, hey… I’m sorry. I got a little off track.
Where was I? …explaining how we have retained the services of a professional blog consultant, Rebecca? yeah, stand up…people this is Rebecca. She owns a company called Web-Savvy-Marketing (www.web-savvy-marketing.com ) and she is here to help us. Now, everyone say hello.
Please save your questions for later. (yeah glenn, you will have a chance to ask questions….provided that you it make past “Mr. Moderator”…lol)
No, I’m serious. Real person, real Consultant and we will all be helpful and cooperative, won’t we? (…no, Britney, I do not think she has a problem with imaginary high school students…why that would be nice, I’m sure she would enjoy that…but lets wait until she gets settled in here…then you can show her around Mill Fill High…that would be great…)

In any event, you will see the effects of Rebecca’s suggestions as we continue to try and modernise and compartmentalise… Yes, she does in fact hail from “Michigan”, the same putative “State” as Mel claims to live in, (no I doubt if they know each other, glenn). So if anyone has any questions about changes or suggestions for changes, thats what we have her here for, so don’t be shy.

Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day?
Sure… why not? You know it is kind of early, we can hardly say we know her, but I think I would would tend towards scott, maybe an evolved clark but definitely not a roger. A hat? (for her damn head)? I think it is best that we wait a bit, see how well things go this Fall. Hate to be Mr. Bringdown, but if we do not hit our numbers by the scheduled date…. (yes, that is the rogerian expression, pronounced: “dit…dit…dit”). It was coined by the Progenitor roger, sometime in the early 1980’s. It is most commonly used as an alternative to ‘e.g.’ (Latin for ‘exempli gratia’) but with an added inference of (the equally Latin), ‘et cetera’, plus an ever so slight overtone of ‘ad infinitum’…

So lets all welcome Miz Becca to the Doctrine, (glenn, you can take off the gag if you promise to be polite to our guest, or better yet…tell Ms. AKH whatever you want to say and if she will say it, I will allow it in Comments)…roger, please stop playing with the three-hole punch, there will be time for making up Report Binders later, yes I am sure she does appreciate neatness.

So, lets go out today and find someone who has not been to the Wakefield Doctrine blog (www.wakefielddoctrine.com) ( how hard can that be?) find them and make them go and read and Comment. Tell them there is a (nearly free) hat in their future if they do this thing.

* by ‘everyone’, we mean all the Visitors** who are not currently, actively engaged in writing this Post
** by ‘all the Visitors’, we mean everyone but me, so that would probably mean, ‘both of you’

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Did you ever stop to thinc that maibe the nomber 2 comes after 3 insted of in front? Down with the Grssh, Mr Hush Hush

August 20, 2010 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) NEW! IMPROVED?! BETTER!!?

yeah, totally improved and betterer…damn, we already borrowed Bowies’ cchhanges, thing, haven’t we? Oh well, ‘the more things change the more they stay the same’…now there is an example of clarklike thinking. (The hell with the explanation of what’s going on), let’s do a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!

Change. (or maybe) the expectation of change is a hallmark of clarks. And it is anathema to scotts. And I don’t mean that scotts don’t like change, they abhor the very notion of it. The idea of change (as in, the opposite of predictable) is enough to make a scott do that tail-tucking, runaway thing. Rogers, on the other hand, they don’t like change either, they really kind of hate it, but they can tolerate the notion of change. Arguably, rogers owe a large part of their identity to their (characteristic) efforts to resist change. Rogers are the conservators of what is and what has been, they just loves they history. (Pop-up Question: the quickest way to find a bunch of male rogers? look in the newspapers, find a Civil War ‘re enactment’ event and there will be your herd. Want the rogerian females? Can you say Family Reunion? I mean seriously, these kinds of gatherings are catnip for rogers…without out the hyper active playfullness or the semi-drugged out happiness…more like a herd of cows in a field of grass that somehow grew to a height of about 3 feet, so they don’t even have to lower their heads to eat. You know…contented rogers)

Sorry, off topic…scotts and change. Not gonna happen. It is an interesting illustration of the scottian worldview to propose to a scott that they imagine living in the kind of world that clarks do. In fact, I once proposed that to DownSpring glenn, one Wakefieldnight last year. Specifically I said, “You know, for clarks the idea that things will stay the same and not change at random is a fond wish, a hope that clarks have, which only illustrates the quality of the reality that clarks exist in, e.g., maybe the sky is (normally) blue and the sun rises in the east. But if tomorrow the sky was dark green and the sun rose in the West, well…stuff like that could happen”. (To which glenn replied, “No fuckin way…that’s crazy…that’s impossible….GO Red Sox…I can’t hear you…you’re not makin any sense”.) (Ed. note Not an exaggeration, verbal conversations on Wakefieldnight actually do sound like this, except more profane and/or crazy in overall tone.)

Anyway, suffice to say, scotts do not like the idea of (fundamental) change. And that makes perfect sense, from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine. The saying is, ‘clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’. (There is another saying, ‘a scott alone in a room, isn’t’). But what makes scotts so strong, so alive and vivacious and (often) fun to be with, is this un-complicatedness. They will act. They will move and react and generally do the things that they enjoy, without a lot of worry or self-consciousness or introspection. ( Think, puppy compared to old cat). Lots of energy. And the energy is expressed in actions. Scotts (as you know if you have read the Page on scotts) are the perceived Leaders in most cultures (you have read the Page on scotts, haven’t you?). They make good leaders, not just because of their enthusiasm and energy (come on, people…trying to present a theory of…here, you maybe don’t have the time to read the background material, already?) but mostly because of their certainty. It is not that scotts are never wrong, but they are never unsure. (…Fine, but don’t write a Comment complaining about how you don’t get it…it’s all there, you want me to frickin read it to you?). And it is this certainty that most people assume is Correct Action. And they will follow it. Show me a charismatic leader in history, (particularly one with a meteoric career) and I will show you a scott. Terrible mangers…great bosses.

Hey! Look at the time! Gotta go, meeting with a blog consultant this morning….yeah the subtitle thing. And that was the ‘free suggestion’, not sure I have the stomache for any major re-design of this thing of ours. But you know what they say…”what’s good for the Doctrine is what must be done, yo”. (No, the expressed resistance to change is not contradicting the point of this Post…will have the counter-balancing explanation for the tendency of clarks to resist change, which is a whole different thing from the scottian loathing of change.) And you would know that, if you had bothered to read more than the Posts with their ‘what-the-hell’ photos and catchy music videos, wouldn’t you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T97f2kBzOQ

Damn! Age much there, guys? Shit, feel a secondary-totally-uncalled-for-point-to-be-made coming on…getting old does seem to suck, but you knew that. What I did not really think of (before hearing Blood, Sweat and I’ve Fallen and Can’t get up, there) is that what makes it suck is the carefulness that seems to be a part of the gettin old experience. For those of us old enough to remember this song, the version above is done in such a cautious, careful-watch-out-for-that-high-note kind of way, that it makes you think that maybe that is not the best of all possible strategies to employ when trying to do things now, that you did then.